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Solar Particles Survive Genesis Crash
September 10, 2004
Scientists are relieved that they have been able to recover enough pieces from the crashed Genesis spacecraft to pursue the science objectives. JPL Director Charles Elachi said they have snatched victory from the jaws of defeat and are bouncing back from a hard landing. The highest-priority science goals may still be attainable, at least partially, […]
Submarine Engineers Admire Penguins
September 10, 2004
An ocean engineer from MIT, Franz Hover, says “we never miss marveling at them,” speaking of penguins. In the cover story of Science News,1 the submarine designer elaborates: Under the power and guidance of its versatile flippers, a penguin can move through the water faster than 10 miles per hour, turn almost instantaneously, and leap […]
Darwins Tree of Life Uprooted; Ring of Life Planted in its Place
September 9, 2004
Perhaps no icon of evolution has been more pervasive than Darwin’s “tree of life” (see 06/13/2003 headline). A drawing of a branching tree was the only illustration in Darwin’s Origin of Species. 145 years later, scientists are saying the metaphor of a tree is wrong; it should be a ring, at least in the family […]
Inferring Dinosaur Family Life from Bones
September 8, 2004
Observation: a jumble of dinosaur bones in China. Conclusion: some dinosaurs showed tender loving care to their young. This is the gist of a paper in Nature this week (Sept. 9),1 reported also on Nature Science Update. Discerning behavior from bones is an art, but these bones of 34 psittacosaurs from Liaoning, China […]
Classifying Eukaryotes Easier than Evolving Them
September 8, 2004
If you like stories with surprise endings, check out an otherwise boring paper by two Canadian evolutionary biologists, Alistair G. B. Simpson and Andrew A. Roger, in the Sept. 7 issue of Current Biology.1 Their subject is the real “kingdoms” of eukaryotes (that’s all creatures with nuclei, including plants, animals, and a host of single-celled […]
Cooing Doves Set Muscle Speed Record
September 8, 2004
The dove: a symbol of peace, innocence, love, and gentleness, right? Its cooing call is a soothing song to nature lovers. Yet hidden in the throat of the dove is one of the fastest-acting muscles in the animal kingdom, report Elemans et al. in the Sept. 9 issue of Nature.1 The cooing song contains a […]
Nature Says ID Paper Scored a Publishing Success
September 8, 2004
A news story in the Sept. 9 issue of Nature1 says, “A new front has opened up in the battle between scientists and advocates of intelligent design, a theory that rejects evolution and is regarded by its critics as another term for creationism.” Reporter Jim Giles says the paper by Stephen Meyer of the Discovery […]
North Pole Enjoyed Balmy Climate
September 8, 2004
In ages past, the North Pole region enjoyed a Mediterranean climate, according to Nature Science Update and the BBC News. EurekAlert reminds us that ice cores demonstrate that Greenland, too, had one or more periods of warm weather suitable for lush plant growth (see 08/16/2004 headline). Climate swings were abrupt enough to occur within a […]
Archer Fish Learns the Laws of Optics
September 7, 2004
Imagine you’re a kid in a swimming pool, underwater with a squirt gun. Lurking under the surface, you detect the wavy, distorted image of your big brother standing on the deck. You sneak up, fire from below– and miss, because you didn’t know how to correct for refraction and distance through the air-water interface. There’s […]
Natural Selection Demonstrated in European Heart-Disease Gene?
September 7, 2004
Stephen Wooding (U. of Utah) is elated. He sees an “exciting trend” in genetic research that might, finally, demonstrate positive natural selection acting on a gene with a clear phenotypic effect (measurable outward benefit). Writing in the Sept. 7 Current Biology,1 he mentions a few recent papers suggesting this connection, but focuses particularly on one […]
Step Aside, Lucy; Your Distant Ancestor Walked Upright, Researchers Claim
September 3, 2004
Penn State researchers are trying to scoop the coveted title of “discoverers of the first upright-walking hominid” with a CT scan of their champion, Orrorin (see 02/23/2001 headline). They have the ball and socket joint of the specimen (thought to be like a chimpanzee) and a bit of the bony neck that connects the ball […]
Darwin’s Finches: Researchers Tweak the Beak
September 3, 2004
Every once in awhile, a new angle on Darwin’s finches (an icon of evolution) appears in print. Peter and Rosemary Grant, who have devoted their life to studying everything possible about these related species of birds that inhabit the Galápagos Islands – only to find that evolutionary changes are reversible (see 04/26/2002 headline) – have […]
Pop Goes the Fatbubble Theory for the Origin of Life
September 3, 2004
This weird theory pops faster than the bubbles it describes as our ancestors.
Letter: The Case Against Embryonic Stem Cell Research
September 3, 2004
Sometimes the letters to the editor are the most interesting parts of a magazine. Read what John T. Durkin says about embryonic stem cell research in response to an April letter by another scientist: In his Letter “Human being redux” (16 April, p. 388),2 M. S. Gazzaniga constructs his defense of human embryonic stem cell […]
Creationist-Hating Evolutionist Chides Darwin Bulldogs
September 2, 2004
Steve Jones (Galton Laboratory, University College, London) wrote a book review in Nature this week1, that, while witty, leaves the reader wondering what he really thinks. One thing is clear: he hates creationists with a vengeance– In a recent magazine poll, Richard Dawkins, with his trademark hobbit smile, was voted Britain’s top intellectual (a welcome […]
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David Coppedge, B.S. Education, B.S. Physics, founded Creation-Evolution Headlines in late 2000 as a way to share science news he was encountering at NASA. It has grown into a highly-trusted source of news and commentary critical of the pro-Darwin consensus, providing analysis of breaking news of interest to creationists and evolutionists, without the Darwin spin. He has authored over 7,000 entries at CEH since its inception.
